“Washington Wants a Say Over Your Minister: The Supreme Court weighs whether the feds can decide which church employees are clergy and which aren’t.” Law professor Michael W. McConnell will have this op-ed Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.

“An Appeal Gone Astray Catches the Supreme Court’s Attention”: Adam Liptak will have this article Wednesday in The New York Times. Tomorrow’s newspaper will also contain an editorial entitled “A Dreadful Missed Deadline.”

“Federal appeals court panel rules in favor of D.C. gun law”: The Washington Post has this news update.

And The Washington Times has a news update headlined “Assault-gun ban stands in D.C., registration rules also upheld.”

“The legacy of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings”: Columnist Ruth Marcus will have this op-ed Wednesday in The Washington Post.

“Event with Justice Stevens recounts remarkable Supreme Court career”: UChicagoNews has this report, with accompanying video of the event.

“Pennsylvania judge raises $427,000 for uncontested race”: Reuters has this report.

“High court hears case of Alabama death row inmate Cory Maples”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this news update.

Joan Biskupic of USA Today has a news update headlined “High court mulls Ala. death row challenge of missed deadline.”

Bill Mears of CNN.com reports that “Justices weigh whether inmate should die after mailroom slipup.”

Ariane de Vogue of ABCNews.com has a report headlined “Supreme Court: Death Row Inmate Says Lawyers From Elite Firm Abandoned Him.”

Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post has a report headlined “Death Row Debate: Justice Scalia Stands Alone As Supreme Court Hears Case Of Mailroom Mix-up.”

James Vicini of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court hears death row inmate’s missed deadline case.”

Agence France-Presse reports that “US court hears ‘return to sender’ death row appeal.”

And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a Supreme Court dispatch entitled “Dead Letter Office: The case that has even Antonin Scalia wondering what to do about incompetent lawyers in death penalty cases.”

“GPS Inventor Urges Supreme Court to Reject Warrantless Tracking”: David Kravets has this post at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

“Supreme Court copyright case will decide fate of millions of once-public works”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this news update.

“Argument preview: Copyright and the public domain.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“High court appears to favor Ala. death row inmate”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to order a new court hearing for an Alabama death row inmate who lost the chance to appeal his death sentence because of a mailroom mix-up at a venerable New York law firm.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Maples v. Thomas, No. 10-63.

“Judge Henry Floyd elevated to 4th Circuit”: James Rosen of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

And Reuters reports that “Senate approves six for judgeships.”

“Appeals court upholds DC gun restrictions”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Washington Assault Weapons Ban Constitutional.”

“Heller Loses Round Two”: At “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Jonathan H. Adler has this post about a lengthy Second Amendment ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

In early news coverage, Reuters reports that “Appeals court upholds DC semi-automatic rifle ban.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post titled “Appeals Court Upholds D.C.’s Ban On Assault Rifles.”

“San Leandro can be sued for blocking church’s move”: In today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for a fast-growing church to sue San Leandro for blocking its move to a larger building, and for a homeless rights advocate to sue Santa Cruz for expelling him from a City Council meeting after he gave a mock Nazi salute to the mayor.”

“Justices request U.S. opinion in California clean-air case; The Supreme Court asks the Obama administration for a brief in the coastal dispute, which involves fuel requirements for ships; Justices also turn down over 1,800 appeals”: David G. Savage has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.

“Poll: SCOTUS approval drops.” Politico.com has a report that begins, “Approval of the U.S. Supreme Court has dropped to its second-lowest rating ever recorded, accoring to a new Gallup poll.”

Yesterday, Gallup issued a news release headlined “Supreme Court Approval Rating Dips to 46%; Down 15 percentage points from 2009.”

“Stevens Chronicles ‘Five Chiefs’ Of The Supreme Court”: This audio segment featuring Nina Totenberg appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“For Justices’ First Day Back, a Knotty Case Involving Medicaid Cutbacks”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times.

In today’s edition of USA Today, Joan Biskupic reports that “Supreme Court weighs right to object to Medicaid cuts.”

And in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko reports that “U.S. Supreme Court hears Medi-Cal fee-cut case.”

“Komisarjevsky Trial: Prosecution Rests After 10 Days Of Testimony; Witness Says He Found ‘Petroleum Product’ On Clothing And Boots; Defense Loses Mistrial Bid Over Juror Contact”: This article appears today in The Hartford Courant.

And The New Haven Register reports today that “Komisarjevsky had gasoline on his boots and clothes, forensic tests showed.”

“Judge Allows Trial on Terrorist’s Challenge to Prison Rules”: John Schwartz and Benjamin Weiser have this article today in The New York Times.

I have posted last Thursday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado at this link.

“Law firm error imperils Alabama death row inmate”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.